Sunday 22 / December / 2024
New Delhi: Pakistan has for the first time admitted that its territory was used for terror attack against India and its probe team's visit to Pathankot strengthens the Centre's stand on the incident, BJP on Tuesday claimed said as it sought to fend off Congress' attack on the issue.
The party also claimed that Pakistan for the first time had assured India of action against terrorists who used its territory for planning the attack and accused Congress of criticising its Joint Investigation Team's visit to India due to "political malice".
"We have adequate evidence that Pakistani territory was used and terrorists based there were involved in the attack. They (Pakistan) said they want to send an investigation team. It only strengthens our case and does not weaken it," party national secretary Shrikant Sharma told a press conference.
Sharma said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had categorically asked his Pakistani counterpart to take action against the terrorists and he, in turn, assured him of action.
"Pakistan for the first time has admitted that its territory was used for the attack. It also assured India of action against them. This happened for the first time," he claimed.
He said a probe team from Pakistan had visited Mumbai after the 26/11 terror attacks but nobody had opposed it then.
Just for the sake of criticism, he said, some critics were terming the JIT visit as a clean chit given to Pakistan by the government which, he insisted, was not true.
Targeting Congress, he said it was due to failures of its government that so many people died in the Mumbai terror attack while the BJP dispensation carried out a "most successful" attack against a suicide operation in Pathankot.
